Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 190]

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 190 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 385 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

385.

B 190. Size 91/2 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 56. Twenty-one and twenty-three lines in a page.

Sa’d al-dîn Mas’ûd b. ‘Omar TAFTÂZÂNÎ’S (d. A.H. 792) Commentary (ممزوج) on the عقائد, or Fundamental Articles of the Muḥammadan Creed, by Najm al-dîn Abu Ḥafṣ ‘Omar b. Muḥammad Nasafî (d. A.H. 537).

This commentary was written in A.H. 768. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 219; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 92; Cat. St. Petersb. 19, etc. It was printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1244, and at Constantinople, A.H. 1260. The text of the ‘Aḳâ’id was published by Cureton, as an appendix to the “Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites,”1 London, 1843. A translation of it, with extracts from the commentary, is to be found in Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau de l’Empire Othman, vol. i.

Well written, with marginal notes.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1014, from Molla ‘Abd al-‘alî. Cf. Catal. 225, x.